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IN

'THE 'CHINA 'MAIL, MONDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1061.

The general who had

cold despair the general gazed out from his hendquarters over the busy city of London.

He thought of the men among its 'leailing citizens who were his friends, of the fashionable women who had entertained him in their homes, of the little children whose heals he had pattell as they looked up in awe.

He thought 100 of the who carried un business men their affairs relying on his m fection, of the working folk who had just cheered him 12 The streets.

And on ageny of shane over- whelmed him

realsed that. In ortler to do his duty, he must abandon them all to n horier moving Devitably to

them from the cast, hort which would destroy the elty and every living creature Ja 1.

policy of sending these ellent kingdoms. The men on the spot carried out this polley ruthlessly. The king's large personal fortane was appropriated, his unlace ran- sacked. The debir, which many of his nobles hud incurred to RoRHA meny lenders to ac- que fashionable luxurits, wer

called in.

by

to abandon

his friends

'WILFRID

SENDALL

·baltic

near

The debtors were seized Re slaves. When the king's widow

shc WIN protested,

publicir somewhere scourged, Her

young Stamford the th daughters were brutally out-

Legion was raged.

whelmed

You may ibink this reads lite

These crimes

transformed perished. sumé splac-chilling Bellon of Boadicea from a cullured, the future. But not at all. Romanised queen to n savage actually happenvil, (xactly 1,900 gelden-haired fury. with one years ago.

thought only-to wreak fearful

A vengeance on the Romans.

It is the oleture, na It appeared to the Roman general Suctontus, of the revolt of Boudicca,

A SYMBOL

Most people have heard of Bandicca. Many of us have seen her statue at Westminster, There she stands in her seythed chariot, her horses rearing towards Big Ben.

her call, the Iceni rose, They were joined by other tribes.

In one vast raging multitude the tribesmen moved towards the nearest centre of Roman Cinvernment, Colchester,

over- and

Peliliun, with a handful or itis cavalry. -escaped

wek to Lincoln, Boadicea turned her

exultant hordes towards Londen, then 45

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TONY

[STRATIERE

GLOUCESTER

LINER

ST ALBANS

הסטרטר

COLCHESTER

A map showing the position of the Roman Legions at the time of Queen Bondicca's revolt, The double line shows the route of the now Walling-street, down which marched the 14th and 20th Legions tonal victory over the Iceni.

of 14

now the most populous and richest city in the country.

Imagine now the dilemma sh The Suetonius, 230 miles oft

Anglesey when this news reached him, new there was not the slightest chance that his infantry could get back in time to save London.

The rising took place at opportune moment. Governor, Suetonius, was fag off in. Anglesey with two leglons on an expedition to subdue the Druks. In the whole country there were only two ather legions, one at Lincoln and the other at Gloucester.

[rom

To us she appears romanile symbol of national Iberly, of herole revolt against foreign oppression. But that is

Colchester Itself was colonised nothing like the view which by retired legionaries, settled on Suetonius had of her as his latid confiscated

the

These veterans took the Brst shock of the revolt. They wers annihilated

their elty destroyed,

scouts warned him of the Britons, advance of her tribesmen On London all those centuries ago. Boadicen-Boudicen is a more Becurate version of her name→→ was the widow of Prasutagus, king of the powerful Iceni tribe

llved

Norfolc Who

In

and Suffolk.

Prasutagus had made

with Rome. He peace established as a client king in a position very similar to that of the Indian maharajahs in the days of Britain's empire India,

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ia

and

DILEMMA

Now suddenly we get a flask of the spirit which made Rome great. While the squalid tyrants who had provoked the rising ed, Petillus, the commander of the Duis

at Linen, Legion marched straight for the centre But alas, for all of the revolt.

Petilics miscalcu- as courage,

lated the scale of the rebellion Boadicea had which the try aroused,

Under Home's overlordstup, he ruled his kingdom with measure of independence.

But when he died, the bureau- crats in Rome had decided on a

A mother

speaks of

her son

N unprecedented crime

Aware, reminiscent of

the first post-war period, har struck the Soviet Union, in the last two months more than three dozen people havo boon executed by hooliganism, shooting for robbery with violence, gold smuggling, and for un- specified crimes such as "at- tacks on police stations."

The Soviet youth journal Smena pubishes a lengthy letter

from the mother

of a young Com- Most League member who hind been stabbed to

death by two pasatlants.

THIS IS RUSSIA

But there was a chance—a slight chance that the Glouces for legion, by forced marches across

the Cotswolds, could reach the unprotected city. Accordingly, Suetonius fast-galloping horsemen with his orders to the commander of the 2nd Legion at Gloucester. He himself with his cavalry rode for Losden.

acni

One can pleture the scenes In The panic-stricken elty when he reached it, the cheers, the tears of relief as the exhausted, dusty horsemen ctivel the River Fleet near modern Smithfield.

But Suetonius had barely time to rest his horses before he learned that his bald dash was in vain.

He

That was the moment of agony for the tough Suetonius. knew that nothing now could avert the doom of Lon don. It rested him whether that would also mean the doom of Roman rule in Britain.

THE CHOICE

If he sacrificed his cavalry in a tutile attempt to hold up the tribal mass moving inexorably toward the elty, it would mean that the 14th and 20th Legions, still beyond Chester, would also be overwhelmed.

And he also foresaw that his owa death would be the signal for all the other tribes to join Boadicos.

Iron nerve

Had the Sectorlus tallerod at moment, the whole history different. this island might have

this of been

Suetonius did nol-faller. He ordered the ranaries to be At Gloucester the commander burned and felt Landon to its of the 2nd Legion, appalled by fate. Then followed the most the fate of the Lincoln legion, fearful disastor in the city"s had refused to march.

long history.

BACK TO SCHOOL

A controversial report that will interest every parent

The steina ofque 'U Boadlera. I alands at the well and of Vestiller Bridge near Big Ben and hows is

1 Queen and her

ANWHIers

Kaina Insto

balile.

Inflamed by hate, "Boadicen close with the legions. But gave it over lo destruction. Is Suetonius did not wait passively population was fildeously 101 the lack. instad, he butchered. No one was spared. ordered his men forward in one Excavations in the City have sudden, devastating charge. revented a layer of ashes, and a mass grave Has been unearthed at Spitalfelds, the rim records of Bondicea's vengeance,

DECISIVE

queen

Then the terrible turned her charlot to the north and the Roman city of St Albany was also sacked,

But along the white ribbon of the new Walling-treet the war- hardened veterans of the 14th and 20th Legions were steadily marching. Suetonius rajcined them for one of the decisive

battles of our history.

Somewhere near Stony Strat. ford. Just of today's Mi, Suetonius found the position he was looking for a place where dense woods flanks and reor.

protected his

There, where he could be attacked only from the front, he owaited Boadicea's host.

The British horde moved ponderously along the line of Watling-street, followed by mass of

Alled with wagons women and children.

a

So sure were the warriors of victory that they drew up their wagens to block the only exit from the woods,

But the trap they made was for themselves.

Inflamed by the eloquence of Bendicea they moved forward to

Surprised and shocked. the Britons were flung in confusion against their own wagon line, to be cut down by the cool, grlily emcient-legionarios.

SHATTERED

Boadicen's army was utterly shattered and the queen herself took polson rather than full Into Suetonius's hands.

The end of the story? Not quite. Agala across the cen- turies we get a glimpse of Ro- man statesmanship.

Not, it is true, from Suetonius, He had a fearful score to setile and, reinforced by fresh troops from Germany, set about exact- in rolribution from the Icent and their allies. His troops

the harried

broken

tribes. Famine aided the sword.

from But a new. procurator Rome, Julius Classteianus, was horrified at Suetonius's ruth- lessness. He appented to Nero to call a halt to the slaughter, and the Emperor responded.

The classle.polley of "Debel- tare · ngerbos,

parcere sub- jeclis" (Put down the mighty. spare the conquered) was applied. Suetonius' was recalled and a new, liberal Governor sent out to bring peace and a milder rule.

Was

(London Express Service).

Should your child be

labelled Dull?

ENGLAND'S

educa By MERRICK WINN

tional system, con- sidered for years to be

the best in Europe, will National

Soon,

But this is not the point. Which is the right

C 100,000 on how children should mentally grow.

De W. D. Wall, director of the National Foundation for Educational research, which han a staff of only 12, has sald: take

"We, as a mattor, dafly decisions involving the ilves of children and the very future of our society—as well as many millions of pounds on no bot- it this one is wrong? This ter basis than guesswork, pre- surely should be the subject judice, superstition, and plous

any hope."

for urgent research for

system

yet. But one day they wil! also judge, and in our argu- spend ing now we had better

and honest and, if possible, right. only

London Express. Barvice).

Foundation for be seen to be believed. "All country which cares about is Our children can't argue I predict, be Educational Research, explain the apathy and the feeling of future.

ezli- to be

flare disappear."

But you might wonder reckoned abroad

"Both the 11-plus and the

about Britain. We If you label

child duli £12,000,000 on scientific one of the worst.

streaming system are designed you tend to make him dull. to separate This judgment will

the academically There are thousands of child- Industrial research but dull from the bright and they ren in British schools condemn- Mercy to Hooligansi" In it possed on us with tho

do it on the whole occurately Marta Rukodanova, the mother publication

ed to be "dull" because that soon of the re-

and fairly. of the murdered lad, says: "Onsults of a 12-motion survey Saturday evening Gennadi went

The letter is headed

"No

be

to the Yaroslavsky club. Later of education in which Eng- that evening I was told, Your land took part lost years son is lying in hospital, ricar to death.'

"I could hardly belleve it. Only

Jew hours before Gennadi was laughing. He was full of plans or the future.

Some 1,100 English children aged 13 to 14 were tested in mathematics, geography, science, and reading under conditions agreed by the 12 nations,

This is the first Ume English chiktiren have been compared on such a scale with foreign children.

The reason

1g how they are labelled,

examinations of

The terrible monkeys beat off children

"But even if this soparation:

As with streaming, so with were desirable, and I for one don't think it is, we then 20 intel children, then tha

the 11-plus. If it is good to 11- on to invite fallure for many children. We give the bright it. This is one of the

plus is a good way of doing most A stream_children

the best efficient teachers and we let the dull kind, but it is not always fair Its C streamers get on with the even within a

own admitted inexperienced ones."

limits.

Consider what happened in it county in the South England. After the 11-plus .results

were announced

grammar school 66)

Overaweď

many more

became

of

suddenly

"BE

Supporters of streaming be- plocos love that bright children

Are available. Children were chosen

New York.

be

What happened? Outside the club folered two hooligans, Stanislav Poslylimyantsev and Anthony Sytnik. They began to pester my son. Gennadi did not

E she ever so terrible, there's no one like want to quarrel with them. People reported that he urged

Mom," is the latest conclusion reached by held back by dull ones; and them lo pull themselves together.

dull ones are overawed, hence nil them.

from the 11-plus "failure" to a University of Wisconsin psychologist who has "Poslyhmyanisoy called him

And the restlia of this eur-

retarded, by bright onen outride into the street. The vey will mean much contro Therefore, they say, both will specially closely

These children were watched been conducting extensive experiments with hooligans thereupon fell on hiro versy, for they will undoubted- do better separated.

to see how monkey mother-substitutes. with a knife. They struck himly seem to show this: although

they would compare with the Mont of Britala'e In the chest,

teachers 11-plus SUCCCEECE. Result: In a raport ́to ja convention Even then, only a very tow we have an average share of

of the American Psychological «mated-and, had babies, "People Eስኪ

belleve this, but they may be many did better. 10 ไอ him, bright children we have more Gennadi was lifted up. But the backward ones than any of the at Nottingham University this argued about

wrong. Research carrit out The 11-plus has been Association, Mr Harry F. Har- they did.produce off-spring, they Infuriated hooligans. taking other mutions.

almost more low revealed that the monkeys were extremely abusive to the advantage of the commolon, Some British educationists year shows that when stream than any other educational in- which he raised with the aid of young ones-often heating them attacked him again in fult view have been predicting this and ing is abolished and children novation in half a century. It dummy mothers all turned out away with both hands, of the spectators.

now they will think they know are taught all together the la hated by parents who inls | to bo "helpless, hopeless, heart- "My son was dead by the the main reason: the putting dull once begin to sparkle, and understand or who under- less mothers" devoid of almost

In

the bright ones are in no way stand it only too well, 31 is ny maternal feeling.

Condemned

morning."

of children into entegories of The letter goes on to say ability na with

the 11-plot held back. "The murderers

the examination and the streaming urlaoners stand even smiled 10 system (A stream-bright; B themselves, and held up their fan right; must, erid 80 Atgers for their friends to see, on). implying 'Well, they will give Mr D. A. Pidgeon,

enlar research officer

us 16 years,'

"And only In the deep allence when the Judge pro- nounced the sentence that they would pay the full penalty of the Jaw did they selre Their harde, I was too late-for-that.

---{London Express Strutet),

hated by the children who fail who it, and by the teacherS brave to see them full,

All but one of the 140 local Authorities in England. and Wales (the

15 exception

Tú

When

However, the infant's love for the mother was so strong that he would, ári effent, refuse' iu The sexul rasponses of this be rejected. 'Mr' Harlow believes group of monkeys also was that "this "deep-rooted natural abnormal that it was almost affection may compensate to some extent. for the Inadequa- impossible to mate them.

Mr Harlow reported that he cles of the mother somalines

it necessary to even transtorning her into Mr Albert Ward Rowe, head Angloser) have some form of had found the for

master of Braintree, Essex, who 11-plus, and no doubt all try develop a "group therapy" pro- better, parent.

This strong, almost ‘desperate, abolished' streaming in his to be fair, bearing Ira mindaramme. It which the dummy affection aim bases out his Tho offer i1; Tielgium, “Fin school and wrote a book about that faltnose i Imobje land, France, Germany; førsel, it-told mo?--

or failure de when MICR Poland, foollard, Sweden, **The children's 'relief - and ponds, se it idees, on the nume Bwitzerland, ske (U.S., (and -J_piness. When alreaming is ben of grantmar-school Yugoslavia.

abolished in, a school has to savadiälle.

places

rufted monkeys were placed on

laboratory experiments monkey Island and exposed evil mothers, the University to some lodly males" before of Wisconsin.psychologlat poini4 the laboratory "enbakers, could a dat. become prepínat.

•Mours

"Friends, Romans, `countrymen-for Pete's sake sipp tending me any more of-your-pertshing-surat'"

PERFUME

MAN

TRAP

This is the tenth bottle you've sold me, and he's taking out Delly

-Lunsley."

Jeff

*No, 'Osorgs-haret”.

*It's the Governor'a wish that gi prisoner should tiel fal homa**

The

First Night of

Hamlet

Shakespeare

What a stinkor? -Edon't givš

over thrie wilks.